Oh, please: everybody is bullied in high school (except maybe the bullies themselves). Normal young men and women toughen up and resist and end up better adults (I joined the Marines after high school and then went looking for my bullies after Boot Camp). Part of growing up.
No, this guy was a freak because of his family or lack of family and maybe a broken brain long before.
The whole gay/trannie/who-knows-what garbage is a mental illness, period.
No one escapes entirely unscathed, but there are tremendously different degrees of viciousness and ratios of victims to victimizers. Twenty ganging up hard on one, with the authorities turning a blind eye isn't something "everybody" faces.